Chateau d'Urbilhac Lamastre

... just on the outskirts is where they make the good stuff.

On our way up to Burgundy, we went through Boujoulais to try a couple more wines. Of course we're barely missing Boujoulais Nouveau, the big festival that happens in 2 weeks, but we still got to try some very good Gamay. And at unbelievable prices... some of the best of the best Boujoulais is around 5 bucks a bottle. We drank that with lunch.
Then it was off to Burgundy... Stay tuned!

... 1/5 de sa surface. Cela donne des formes naturelles auxquelles le sculpteur donne une signification en ajoutant le plus souvent un visage sur une silhouette drapée dans des replis naturels. Le résultat est souvent d'une beauté surprenante.
Donc à la semaine prochaine pour les photos.

Ensuite l'aventure continue à Pékin

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... le gros œuvre allant jusqu'à fabriquer de la fausse pierre. Diane s'est chargée de la décoration. Le résultat d'ensemble est impressionnant surtout lorsque l'on considère le soin apporté aux détails. Petit clin d'œil à l'histoire : chacune des chambres porte le nom d'un ancien occupant de la maison. On trouve ainsi la chambre Laurens ...

Bonjour mes ami,
This will give you some idea of where we are and what sort of countryside is around us -
We are living about a km outside of St Barthelemy on the road to Lamastre and about 7 km from Lamastre. St B is very small and has little except for houses, school, a mairie ( the council which each town has) and a bar which is also the post office and bread depot. Each town by ...

... of aubenas.

The next day we were on a mission to find a GPS, if nothing else haqppened today, we needed to find a GPS. After too many dead end turns and bad leads to count, we had pretty much resigned ourselves to the fact we were not going to find a GPS in this city, so we headed for the motorway to head for the next biggest city, but as we were heading onto the motor way, by a massive stroke of luck we stumble upon a hardware ...

Possibly the most romantic destination EVER, the Chateau Du Bijou is very beautiful and totally away from it all, but only just! We spent the weekend exploring the Ardeche and Drome
areas, situated either side of the Rhone Valley, which are both also really beautiful
and unspoilt holiday destinations. No crowded beaches, but fresh rivers
for ...

... fast.
The campsite electric had both the standard IEE plug as well as the French version at 9amps and there was a water tap on each pylon
There is a small bar and restaurant where you can get meals to eat in your outfit or tent but the bar does close early (7pm) like a lot of establishments in rural France

You know you have been away from home for a long time when you start speaking english the way foreigners do, like in my title.

The French keyboqrd is "azerty", not "qwerty" like in Cqnqdq: qnd so zhen you type you get qll kinds of strqnge zords: qnd punctuqtion: I guess the ,ost noticeqble szitch is the q zhich is q a insteqd111: Zhen I type I reqlly hqve to pqy qttention to the keyboqrd or I ,qke qll ...

ALLONS 'Y! Thanks to Joy and Gary we had wheels! They very generously loaned us their Chrysler Cruiser PT convertible for a 10 day trip into France. A couple of months before, when we had driven through British Columbia and wine country in California and had seen all the baby- boomers touring in their Cruisers, we admit that we had made the odd comment. Now it was us - just as well we had spoken so benevolently ...